Scientists have detected something very strange – extremely rapid pulses in the light of 234 stars like our sun.
Could it be a beacon – a pattern of light superimposed over the stars, broadcast by an intelligent extraterrestrial civilisation?
Two French-Canadian scientists detected the stars in data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey – after predicting that aliens might broadcast this way, rather than by using radiowaves.
In a pre-print scientific paper, the researchers write, ‘We find that the detected signals have exactly the shape of an ETI (extra terrestrial intelligence) signal... read more

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